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What Dance Can Do

What Dance Can Do
Please note this booking is for Sunday only. The booking link for Saturday will open shortly What Dance Can Do is a two-day symposium on Intergenerational Dance and Dance and Age(ing). The symposium will share practice and offer provocations on: The aesthetics of age on stage The improvisatory processes embedded in work with older performers Digital media as a tool for creative expression in work with intergenerational and over 60s groups in professional, community, work and health contexts The symposium is jam-packed with workshops and talks by renown artists and academics working in the field of intergenerational, community and over 60s dance. The Saturday includes a community showcase, film, digital installations and outdoor performances and culminates with an informal sharing of work made through an intensive residency with choreographer Galit Liss, facilitated by Encore Easts Pushing Boundaries. Presenters include Professor Michela Vecchi, Dr Maria Kapsali, Dr Yael Flexer, Dr Gemma Harman and Professor Victoria Marks (tbc). Performances and installations include works by Flexer & Sandiland, Three Score Dance, EncoreEast, Damn Fine Dance, Virginia Farman, Function of X, Counterpoint, Quercum, Vivienne Hamblin and more. Saturday workshops are led by Molly Wright, Galit Liss, Maria Kapsali, Virginia Farman and Yael Flexer. Sunday workshops, presented by Flexer & Sandiland and Encore East, are led by Galit Liss, Luke Birch, Nic Sandiland & Yael Flexer. Details on how to find the venue [https://www.chi.ac.uk/about-us/how-to-find-us/]

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